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curious anon-do you have any go-to language/terminology references for your fics?

Yes, definitely. Here's a mostly complete list: if I remember a few more, I'll add them in later. If you find this post through a reblog chain, please keep in mind that the version on my blog will be updated from time to time, so click back for additional references if the reblogged post contains broken links or doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

Masterpost of references for the MDZS/CQL fandom (re: terminology, look here for naming guides and a list of familial terms. You'll also find info on wedding and funeral customs, cultivation lore, MDZS maps and sect history, and novel/audio drama summaries.)

Detailed glossary/explanations of concepts in wuxia, xuanhuan, and xianxia novels. Look here for a guide to weapons, martial arts, more cultivation lore, and a few units of measurement.

Guide to the martial family. You can also find a separate guide through the masterpost.

Guide to modern/historical titles. This is a wikipedia page and most likely incomplete, but came in handy after the guide in the MDZS masterpost was removed.

Guide to Chinese nobility. Look here for basic information about the peer ranks of various dynasties.

For a guide specific to the Qing dynasty (aka, the one I used for Flowers in the Palace) click here.

Guide to Chinese clothing, by @ziseviolet. Click here for information on historical fashions, hairstyles, accessories, and so on.

Color terms you're not likely to find with google translate, by @linghxr. These include translations for colors like cyan, indigo, luminous white, etc.

Timekeeping. Wiki article about the dual hour, fifteen daylight hours, etc.

Traditional calendar. I bookmarked this page for the phenological month names used in TMAAF, but there’s a lot more information here.

For food: someone on Twitter made a detailed guide to the dishes that the characters in MDZS would have eaten, but I’ll have to go looking for it. In the meantime, try these links.

Hubei cuisine (Yunmeng): 1, 2

Hebei cuisine (Qinghe)

Shaanxi cuisine (Qishan)

Shandong cuisine (Lanling)

Jiangsu cuisine (Gusu)

For individual words and characters: try hantrainerpro. Given a word/character, you can find its definitions, synonyms, other words that contain the character, and a list of different words pronounced the same way. I also use Written Chinese to look up the individual radicals within a character, but there are several better dictionaries out there.

#writing tips

dicapitoe-deactivated20221110

Are you fucking kidding me?

https://t.co/YEsPJ0Yq1H

Netflix will soon launch a test letting primary account holders pay an additional fee for users outside their households — a new attempt by

dicapitoe-deactivated20221110

You make a good ass point.

chilewithcarnage

barmecidebiohazard

“…some confusion about when and how Netflix can be shared.” How netflix can be shared? You can’t take people’s money for a service and then demand that they use it a certain way. it WILL be shared however the fuck we want to, because we’re paying for it.

moonisneveralone

These hoes really made 3.5 Billion Dollars off of subscriptions last year and still act like they ain’t getting enough 🙄

blackwoolncrown

Okay but look up where they’re starting it bc the places they’re initiating this move are like…Costa Rica and Peru and shit lke… it’s giving Big Racism. Like they’re legit starting this shit on brown ppl to punish them for having families they share with.

melyzard

Here’s an article that discusses how, exactly, Netflix might try to actually force people not to share their accounts. But this is the bit I found most interesting:

“The other side of the argument says that Netflix could lose millions of subscribers if it implements a strict policy. For instance, people who share an account and chip in to pay for the service may not find Netflix’s subscription worthwhile if they have to pay the total amount by themselves. Netflix is already one of the priciest streaming service options for consumers; limiting the ability to share would essentially raise the price further.”

And:

“The expense for Netflix is the opportunity cost: How much more revenue could it bring in if it restricted account sharing to a more substantial degree? In reality, Netflix does not know the answer to this question. It has not tried this before, and there is no telling if the total of new signups versus cancellations will result in higher revenue.”

Personally, I’m a big fan of VPNs and bittorrent. If you live in Chile, Peru, or Costa Rica, here is a write up (from Dec 2021) for how to check, and hide, your region from Netflix. This also works if you’re just looking for content that Netflix streams in a different country than your own. (Here’s a 2022 guide, in case the other article isn’t helping you for some reason, altho it recommends ExpressVPN and I do not).

If youre interested, here’s an explanation for how Netflix tries to get around VPNs (cheaper VPNs are easier. Persobally, I use Nord and never have a problem with Netflix).

shoresoftheshadowlands

explorerrowan

If I pay a subscription to allow four devices to watch simultaneously, it shouldn’t matter if those devices are in the same home, or region, or on the fucking moon. That’s my subscription, and you shouldn’t be able to dictate where it can be used.

this-too-too-sullied-flesh

horrorlesbians

do you think hannibal would murder me if he watched me delicately place chips inside a sandwich and then smash it slowly before eating it

horrorlesbians

he’d either kill me or ask me why i prefer my sandwiches with chips and i’d shrug and say “i like the crunch”. which would prompt him to say something along the lines of “we often crave a taste more primitive, the crunching between our teeth used to be birthed from the snapping of bones from a fresh kill. is that what you are savoring for? tell me helena, do you hunger for brutality?”

eatsleepcrap

what’s the difference between a piano, a tuna, and a pot of glue?

eatsleepcrap

you can tuna piano, but you can’t piano a tuna

oilvla

What does glue have to do with this

eatsleepcrap

i knew you’d get stuck there

xiaq

Ok so I have these two friends. One straight cis guy, and one lesbian. They look pretty similar, have the same hair style, and tend to shop at the same places for clothes. So the running friend-group joke is that they’re twins. And they’re always like “I don’t see it.”

This weekend, completely unplanned, they showed up to a wedding looking like this.

I think they see it now.

xiaq

Also the guy was the officiant and all night people kept coming up to the girl to praise her officiating prowess. 😂

cisthoughtcrime

badassbiburgerbob

This is endearing and hilarious

We love to see the generations working together like this

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what

dragontatoes

do you mean a wikipedia page about us? or do you mean some baby is arbitrarily given the rights and responsibilities to update the paramecium article?

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

ok I did mean a Wikipedia page about us. But keep talking I like where you’re headed

peregrineggsandham

What's your government-assigned Wikipedia page? (No rerolls. I am in charge of "1929 in Wales" now. Not a great year, some bad floods in November.)

curlicuetruth

ok but what if whatever you write becomes objective reality

whetstonefires

i got an albanian guy whose life is explained entirely in terms of the Ottoman Empire

brawltogethernow

Brazos River Bottom, also known as the BRB, was a gay bar located in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas, United States, that opened in 1978.

Yeah alright.

banrionceallach

Fernando Buesa Arena is an indoor sports arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

#1938 in Poland #O__O

pyronoid-d-deactivated20181217

please watch this video of Tay Zonday streaming Team Fortress 2 for the first time. just watch the first 45 seconds then skip to literally anywhere else beyond that point in the video

pyronoid-d-deactivated20181217

Every now and then someone starts this trending again and the wave of notes reminds me that it is still my favourite video on the Internet

#LMAO

fischotterkunst

yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:

(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)

fischotterkunst

so here is what NOT to do if you’re a loyal fan of adobe who has the cash to shell out for a newer and shittier version of the product you already paid for.

1) DON’T use your search bar to find and open the Run app

2) DON’T type in services.msc

3) DON’T find Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Services and right-click to get a dropdown menu, and don’t select ‘properties’

4) if you happen to click properties, DON’T use the startup type dropdown to locate the option to disable the program. be sure you DON’T click apply to finalize that change.

5) DO NOT do the same thing in order to also disable Adobe Genuine Software Monitor

if you do all of these things, this WILL disable adobe’s ability to monitor the software, and you will be forced to continue using the same older software that you already paid for instead of having to sign up for a newer, shittier version and pay more for it. so if you have lots of cash to spare and are cool with putting it the pockets of racketeering capitalists, definitely don’t do any of these things.

however, you SHOULD reblog this to spread the word, as we certainly want to make sure lots of people know what NOT to do :)

hideousgourd

I’M SORRY MA'AM. I KNOW YOU’RE UPSET.

Pretend to be upset.

june-egbert-official

OP how could you

I hope none of my friends who use Adobe programs find this, follow your detailed instructions, and spread the word. That would be devastating!

neil-gaiman

It would.

st-pam

mary-canary-deactivated20241111

🙏🏻

ovadrive

castellankurze

The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base. Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

nudityandnerdery

Those tags deserve to be shared.

darkcomedies-deactivated2022042

the most insane double casting i’ve heard of is ophelia and horatio being played by the same actress. the implications of that drive me crazy

darkcomedies-deactivated2022042

you guys are doing things in the tags of this post

c9eeeeed

#to this day my favorite performance of hamlet i’ve seen is one where there were two hamlets#one was the dutiful son and the other was his vengeful id#and they split all the lines in the play depending on which hamlet was speaking#all the soliloquies became arguments between the two and it was SO good#the second hamlet doesn’t appear until hamlet’s father appears and tells him Claudius is to blame for his death#he opens to curtains and his first line is ‘Murder?’#and the other characters can’t see that second hamlet at first - just the initial one#until slowly throughout the play the second hamlet is the one they look at and interact with#until finally the first hamlet - the dutiful prince - is the one who’s ignored#anyway it was metal as fuck holy shit#i wish i could watch it again but i have no idea if it was recorded (via rythyme)

lunar-tears-and-actual-tears

gotta appreciate his honesty

ohsoinnocentperv

This coming from the same man that, when asked why 2B was so scantily clad and wearing high heels, his response was “I just really like girls.”

An absolute treasure of a human being.

Oh! Not to mention the one time the devs for the gacha game he was making demanded a character in a swim suit to boost sales… so Yoko Taro designed a super attractive female character… and then put her in a full body diving suit so you could only see her face lmao